What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I'm the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You're fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You're fucking dead, kiddo.

To Iranian President Rouhani: NEVER, EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE. WE ARE NO LONGER A COUNTRY THAT WILL STAND FOR YOUR DEMENTED WORDS OF VIOLENCE & DEATH. BE CAUTIOUS!

He went full caps-lock demented scream. I just hope he's all bluster and no trousers when it comes to threatening war. Which is an odd thing to find yourself hoping for. Kinda the exact opposite of "talk softly and carry a big stick".

Trump has the biggest stick, oh yes, the ladies can't get enough of that giant stick. It's yuuuge.

Maybe he's compensating for his weakness in Russia. He has a lots of reasons to threaten Iran. In his usual clumsy way. It's hard to say without being a dumbass pundit.https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40006734Edit found a link that explains some reasons to threaten Iran.

To Iranian President Rouhani: NEVER, EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE. WE ARE NO LONGER A COUNTRY THAT WILL STAND FOR YOUR DEMENTED WORDS OF VIOLENCE & DEATH. BE CAUTIOUS!

He went full caps-lock demented scream. I just hope he's all bluster and no trousers when it comes to threatening war. Which is an odd thing to find yourself hoping for. Kinda the exact opposite of "talk softly and carry a big stick".

Trump’s main financial backer for the Trump Tower Toronto was a Russian-Canadian billionaire who got the money by selling a massive steel mill in Ukraine for nearly a billion dollars. $100 million of that money was paid to a Kremlin-backed fixer, likely as a bribe to VERY high Russian officials. The Chairman of the Bank who financed the deal? Vladimir Putin.

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Trump bought his home in Palm Beach for $41 million. A few years later, with no real increase in the value -- he sold it for almost $95 million -- the most expensive home in America at the time! Why? A major Russian oligarch bought it -- we don’t know yet why he effectively ‘gave’ trump $50 million. But it’s classic money laundering practice.

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Trump's real estate deals were often fuelled by Russian money, typically passed through shady shell companies. 77% of Trump Soho apartments were bought with cash by such mysterious companies. At least 13 people with links to Russian oligarchs or mobsters lived in Trump properties, including one of Russia's top mobsters. One even ran a high-stakes illegal gambling ring in the apartment right below Trump's!

"Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets" Donald Trump JR, 2008

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Trump’s financial broker and “Senior Advisor” was a Russian convicted felon named Felix Sater, widely known as a mafia figure who once stabbed someone in the face with a broken margarita glass, requiring over 100 stitches. Sater helped set up shell companies, and arranged funding for Trump’s projects, including plans for Trump Tower Moscow. He’s also part of Putin’s inner circle. Here’s one email he wrote to Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen in November 2015:

"Michael I arranged for Ivanka to sit in Putins private chair at his desk and office in the Kremlin. I will get Putin on this program and we will get Donald elected. We both know no one else knows how to pull this off without stupidity or greed getting in the way. I know how to play it and we will get this done. Buddy our boy can become President of the USA and we can engineer it. I will get all of Putins team to buy in on this, I will."

New York Times, August 27, 2017

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Trump’s other main business is casinos -- which are classic money laundering vehicles. One of his casinos was 100 times found in violation of federal rules protecting against money laundering, and paid the largest fine ever levied against a casino for having “willfully violated” anti-money laundering rules. Trump has a legal obligation to do “due diligence” for all his businesses to prevent laundering. His senior executive’s comment on this was “Donald doesn’t do diligence”.

Her own life and people she cares for were damaged.Yet; She seems to be a consummate intellectual.I recommend it.

We, Americans, often don't know what is happening.Happening across Town, leave across The World.

Too darn many of us Think we do.Like the Russians, if we see it on TV, then it is True.

Oh,....What do you think of what Ms. Julia has to say?

Spoiler:

I think she is Wrong about what motivates Trump,She says the One on One over chocolate cake changed Trump's mind.I think it was $Money$ from China into the Family that changed his mind.(shrug..) I think $Money$ and $Greed$ are at the Heart of our problems.

Sableagle wrote:There are also a lot of good reasons many of us would rather he didn't threaten Iran.Many of the people of the USA and also many of the other 95.62% of the world's population, I mean.

Meh. It was stupid, childish, and utterly beneath the dignity of the office... but ultimately, it's just hot air intended to draw attention from his Helsinki gaffe, and both sides know it.Iran isn't going to do anything; and really isn't capable of doing anything even if they wanted to. The US isn't going to do anything, either.That said, isn't threatening a specific person technically against the Twitter terms? Maybe if we all report him, they'll disable his account?

They could kidnap more Americans. Albeit, most of them are Iranian dual citizens/really brave/stupid students/professors, but they're still Americans. For now anyway.

Sableagle wrote:There are also a lot of good reasons many of us would rather he didn't threaten Iran.Many of the people of the USA and also many of the other 95.62% of the world's population, I mean.

Meh. It was stupid, childish, and utterly beneath the dignity of the office... but ultimately, it's just hot air intended to draw attention from his Helsinki gaffe, and both sides know it.Iran isn't going to do anything; and really isn't capable of doing anything even if they wanted to. The US isn't going to do anything, either.That said, isn't threatening a specific person technically against the Twitter terms? Maybe if we all report him, they'll disable his account?

They could kidnap more Americans. Albeit, most of them are Iranian dual citizens/really brave/stupid students/professors, but they're still Americans. For now anyway.

Or do what they are currently doing and funding terrorist activity against Americans the world over, or allow a group of 20 Saudis to travel through from Afghanistan.

It appears Russia may have hacked access to some of the power grid in the united states. If this is true I am worried why Trump is not condemning it. Colbert said play jenga by candle light. Please! It's 2018 man... we've got D&D 3.5.

gd1 wrote:It appears Russia may have hacked access to some of the power grid in the united states. If this is true I am worried why Trump is not condemning it. Colbert said play jenga by candle light. Please! It's 2018 man... we've got D&D 3.5.

I’ve not addressed his thread yet as it hurts me to do so, so here’s a warning. I like gmal and natraj. I also fully expect that I’ll piss them off when I ban them both from N&A and SB for some claim they made without a citation. I’m prepared to fuck up internet friendships and have a week from hell dealing with it in the Mod forum.

Why would you - any of you - possibly think you have any protections? If I had been posting in this thread in the last month or two, I’d sure as fuck make sure I have a citation for the sky being blue on hand to be linked as needed.

So, with that said - and how it’d be unfair to throw you out right now as I’ve not hit anyone since my initial requirement, so.....

Citations? Links? Something to go with this beyond you just saying words?

heuristically_alone wrote:I want to write a DnD campaign and play it by myself and DM it myself.

heuristically_alone wrote:I have been informed that this is called writing a book.

Because, I have lost control of my machines, in the past.Have you Never been Hacked?? I can tell you how I got out.

Once; I abandoned the machine and all of its contents.Another Time; An Angel in Kansas remotely led me out.

We, as a nation, are Not prepared for this.Snowden? umm...Mayyybee....

gd1 wrote:It appears Russia may have hacked access to some of the power grid in the united states. If this is true I am worried why Trump is not condemning it. Colbert said play jenga by candle light. Please! It's 2018 man... we've got D&D 3.5.

Yes! I know! You should be worried!In April 2018, the Russians showed us ScreenShots of internal U.S. PowerGrid Control Screens.

To save the situation getting ugly, if I may pipe up with Russian hackers penetrate US power stations (...the BBC reports that the WSJ reports) from a couple of days ago. Though I've seen it mentioned even several months ago (may have been far more speculative?).

This was judged Largely False (dating to claims back in 2016) and even the current claims are a bit volatile in their claimed effectiveness.

I tend to think that any actual breakthroughs by (Russian/other) hackers is going to be through the occasional success of a scattergun phishing approach more than "Hacker 959, you will get access to New York's North Central Power Relays for us, pronto!", which doesn't mean that their happenstance penetrations would not have been useful. (Hopefully, by detection and extrapolation to other systems to update them and freeze out undetected access in the process, any inroads made have been uprooted.)

But I'm not in a position to be definite about what actually happened (besides reading through the journalese descriptions), and my past experiences dealing with Code Red, Nimda, etc just don't extrapolate well to more modern attacks. I imagine.

gd1 wrote:It appears Russia may have hacked access to some of the power grid in the united states. If this is true I am worried why Trump is not condemning it. Colbert said play jenga by candle light. Please! It's 2018 man... we've got D&D 3.5.

I’ve not addressed his thread yet as it hurts me to do so, so here’s a warning. I like gmal and natraj. I also fully expect that I’ll piss them off when I ban them both from SB for some claim they made without a citation. I’m prepared to fuck up internet friendships and have a week from hell dealing with it in the Mod forum.

Why would you - any of you - possibly think you have any protections? If I had been posting in this thread in the last month or two, I’d sure as fuck make sure I have a citation for the sky being blue on hand to be linked as needed.

So, with that said - and how it’d be unfair to throw you out right now as I’ve not hit anyone since my initial requirement, so.....

Citations? Links? Something to go with this beyond you just saying words?

polling indicates that Republicans have emerged more unified and motivated by immigration than they were before the policy was publicized.

Partisanship is a hell of a drug. Also fuck you Republicans. You're lucky hell doesn't exist.

I find it odd that the Trump administration feels bad/ is pressured by how bad the optics look, but the polling is stable. Does that mean Republicans felt bad about babies, but the administration's response was good enough?

sardia wrote:I find it odd that the Trump administration feels bad/ is pressured by how bad the optics look, but the polling is stable. Does that mean Republicans felt bad about babies, but the administration's response was good enough?

Perhaps they mis-estimated what their own base was willing to accept, based on the media reaction? Either could be the case, or some blend of them.

Or maybe they don't feel bad about babies at all, but feel as if they ought to feel bad, and thus impute that reaction to others on their side. A bit speculative, I admit, but I note my prediction of Republicans not actually punishing Trump with any additional reactions still seems to be untract. They'll make disagreeing noises, but they're not going to hold up nominations or side with democrats.

The bit about the massive jump saying that immigration is the most important issue in your source is fascinating. That appears to be largely driven by the furor. So, what, ten percent or so of the population will change their prioritization of an issue because of what Trump says? That's a potent use of the bully pulpit.

They reference the Quinnipac poll* in a contradictory fashion. In one part, they say Republican approval of Trump's stance on immigration increased from 55% to 75%, where in another, they say it's stable at about 8 in 10. Odd.

25. As you may know, some families seeking asylum from their home country cross the U.S. border illegally and then request asylum. In an attempt to discourage this, the Trump administration has been prosecuting the parents immediately, which means separating parents from their children. Do you support or oppose this policy?

44. Do you approve or disapprove of the way President Trump is handling the situation involving children who have been separated from their parents at the border?

I suspect some of the change is the belief that they've stopped separating families and even that they're now reuniting significant numbers of families. So to give them the benefit of the doubt, that 20% of Republicans may simply be ignorant, rather than actively pro-fascist.

(And before anyone accuses me of partisan hypocrisy, the 27% of Democrats who supported the policy in June were also supporting fascism. Acknowledging that Dems are less harmful on average doesn't mean I think they're all fine.)

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Soupspoon wrote:To save the situation getting ugly, if I may pipe up with Russian hackers penetrate US power stations (...the BBC reports that the WSJ reports) from a couple of days ago. Though I've seen it mentioned even several months ago (may have been far more speculative?).

was judged Largely False (dating to claims back in 2016) and even the current claims are a bit volatile in their claimed effectiveness.

It's important to note that "penetrated" doesn't necessarily mean anything beyond the fact that they got some kind of access. It doesn't mean that they have full control, or even partial control; it could be nothing more than the ability to snoop around.

As the Snopes link points out, the brief panic over the Vermont power grid being allegedly "infiltrated" was the result of a single laptop being found to be infected with malware - and it wasn't even connected to any sensitive systems. The problem is that the headline "Laptop Found With Malware, Just Happened To Be In Power Plant Office" doesn't sell nearly as many copies.

While we're on it, no idea of the potential biases behind this report, besides obviously having a particular tale to tell about potentially quite damning circumstantial evidence and total headdesk moments if some of the technical/procedural information is anywhere near true.

While we're on it, no idea of the potential biases behind this report, besides obviously having a particular tale to tell about potentially quite damning circumstantial evidence and total headdesk moments if some of the technical/procedural information is anywhere near true.

I don't know what that author's bias is.Everyone has a bias of one kind or the other.

I have Not heard my State was effected.Yet; I KNOW! I was very nearly blocked from voting.

EDIT: I can't look away from Soupspoons' linked article.

At the 2017 Def Con computer security conference, a 16-year-old hacker broke into as ExpressPoll voting machine used by Georgia in 45 minutes. Another cyberhacker showed how he could change votes in the WINvote machine used in Virginia, Pennsylvania and Mississippi, with only a computer, a mouse and a Microsoft Word document, as long as he had the password. But the hacker soon discovered that WINvote machines all had the same password.

The password, which could not be changed, was (you might want to take a deep breath) “abcde.”

....Someone; Say something.

Life is, just, an exchange of electrons; It is up to us to give it meaning.

We are all in The Gutter.Some of us see The Gutter.Some of us see The Stars.by mr. Oscar Wilde.

Those that want to Know; Know.Those that do not Know; Don't tell them.They do terrible things to people that Tell Them.

At the 2017 Def Con computer security conference, a 16-year-old hacker broke into as ExpressPoll voting machine used by Georgia in 45 minutes. Another cyberhacker showed how he could change votes in the WINvote machine used in Virginia, Pennsylvania and Mississippi, with only a computer, a mouse and a Microsoft Word document, as long as he had the password. But the hacker soon discovered that WINvote machines all had the same password.

The password, which could not be changed, was (you might want to take a deep breath) “abcde.”

....Someone; Say something.

Incredible. I have the same combination on my luggage.

More seriously, I think intelligence has been described as a bell curve. This is why scams are profitable unfortunately. Interestingly, this is also how I used to get headshots in planetside 2. I am a sad unskilled person.

gd1 wrote:More seriously, I think intelligence has been described as a bell curve. This is why scams are profitable unfortunately. Interestingly, this is also how I used to get headshots in planetside 2. I am a sad unskilled person.

sigh...I fear you have stumbled Off Topic, again.Gaming in general and our personal achievements in a Game World have no place here.

The book Bell Curve is worth discussion.Very little of the book neither pro nor con belong here.

We can discuss the roll the Trump Presidency plays in empowering or disabling individual citizens.If you are sad and unskilled, does the Trump Presidency give you hopeful aspirations or not? Why?

Life is, just, an exchange of electrons; It is up to us to give it meaning.

We are all in The Gutter.Some of us see The Gutter.Some of us see The Stars.by mr. Oscar Wilde.

Those that want to Know; Know.Those that do not Know; Don't tell them.They do terrible things to people that Tell Them.

gd1 wrote:More seriously, I think intelligence has been described as a bell curve. This is why scams are profitable unfortunately. Interestingly, this is also how I used to get headshots in planetside 2. I am a sad unskilled person.

sigh...I fear you have stumbled Off Topic, again.Gaming in general and our personal achievements in a Game World have no place here.

The book Bell Curve is worth discussion.Very little of the book neither pro nor con belong here.

We can discuss the roll the Trump Presidency plays in empowering or disabling individual citizens.If you are sad and unskilled, does the Trump Presidency give you hopeful aspirations or not? Why?

I think my blood is pixelated at this point.

The trump presidency makes me think we're approaching the end times.

"When the power or authority comes in the hands of unfit persons, then wait for the Hour."

Link I guess? (more for the title than the article) Hopefully not too off topic [if it is, let me know and I'll delete it].

Some examples:China = Xi president for lifeUSA = Worst president in the history of the country imoNorth Korea = Kim Jong UnEgypt = SisiRussia = Putin

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Representative Karen Bass wrote: Last week, I spoke to a grandmother (in a cage) who the government had deemed "ineligible" to stay with her grandchild because she was not his mother. The boy was shipped off to foster care and in 6 months, can be put up for adoption in Texas. That’s what “ineligible” means.

That kind of genocide is the kind where those children get a formal apology decades later. Need something better than a Historian decades from now trashtalking Trump like they do President Jackson. What you're looking for is contempt of court. Which IIRC, the judge instead went with special monitor. https://www.nbcboston.com/news/national ... 72781.htmlBest bet is to hope Democrats win more seats. The less political cover he has, the less room for the trump administration to sneak through bad shit. That'll buy time until 2020. Hopefully Democrats will get their shit together by then.

What I was looking for was a word that accurately describes a thing. Genocide is one such word.

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gmalivuk wrote:What I was looking for was a word that accurately describes a thing. Genocide is one such word.

Its not the right word unless theres “intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group”. Its absolutely not the same as the taking of native american children and putting them into residential schools in an attempt to get rid of their culture.

Its a heinous act being used to try and deter people from coming across the border. I think it falls much better under the Crimes against Humanity description (from the same UN link)